I Hear America Singing And Let America Be America Again
America, the United States, the freedom land, the American dream, or was it just a place to live, separation of class and money, and still people living in poverty. Two poems, ‘’I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman and “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes determine whether America was a dream for everyone or not. If the front people try to force this country to be or the truth about how people live determine if it’s a dream or not.
In “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman, America was a dream for everyone. It symbolizes the American dream, the dream of a utopia. According to the poem America WAS a dream for everyone. “The varied carols I hear,” “…each
one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,” “, the hatter singing as he stands,” If the world altered their lives and acted more like the people in this poem then this country might be happier, and if we’re happier then maybe this country’s bad ways would change for the better. This poem displays that happiness is key, to success and happiness, so if happiness is the dream then according to this poem, we have succeeded in doing that.
In Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again” only the repressed, the truly wise, was it a dream. For the people blinded by greed, temptation, and devastation it was not. The poem says, “I am the man who never got ahead, the poorest worker bartered through the years. Yet I’m the one who dreamt our basic dream” “…To build a homeland of the free.” So there are people who believed the dream and that it could be accomplished. This poem displays that the dream is what you make it. That maybe you have to give of yourself in order to make this dream happen. So according to this poem, America was indeed not a dream for everyone.
So, America was not a dream for everyone. The view that Walt Whitman had on the world was bright, glorious, and happy. Langston Hughes’s view was that it was not a dream for everyone, but the ones who decided that they wanted a good life, succeeded at that.
In “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman, America was a dream for everyone. It symbolizes the American dream, the dream of a utopia. According to the poem America WAS a dream for everyone. “The varied carols I hear,” “…each
one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,” “, the hatter singing as he stands,” If the world altered their lives and acted more like the people in this poem then this country might be happier, and if we’re happier then maybe this country’s bad ways would change for the better. This poem displays that happiness is key, to success and happiness, so if happiness is the dream then according to this poem, we have succeeded in doing that.
In Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again” only the repressed, the truly wise, was it a dream. For the people blinded by greed, temptation, and devastation it was not. The poem says, “I am the man who never got ahead, the poorest worker bartered through the years. Yet I’m the one who dreamt our basic dream” “…To build a homeland of the free.” So there are people who believed the dream and that it could be accomplished. This poem displays that the dream is what you make it. That maybe you have to give of yourself in order to make this dream happen. So according to this poem, America was indeed not a dream for everyone.
So, America was not a dream for everyone. The view that Walt Whitman had on the world was bright, glorious, and happy. Langston Hughes’s view was that it was not a dream for everyone, but the ones who decided that they wanted a good life, succeeded at that.